After responding to a report of a physical domestic argument, police arrested a Hanover man on strangulation and assault charges.

On Dec. 17, at about 2:30 a.m., police heard a woman yelling and crying in the second-floor room of a house in the 400 block of South Franklin Street in Hanover, according to an affidavit filed with District Judge Dwayne Dubs.

Police gained entry to the house via a family member and went to the second floor where the officer asked for the door to be opened and unlocked.

Seconds later, John Edward Bostic, 39, opened the door; the only other person in the room was the female victim. Police observed that she was crying, bleeding from the lips and had swelling on the left side of the face, according to the affidavit.

Police removed the victim from the room and asked Bostic, who was sitting on the mattress, to stand up and place his hands behind his back.

Bostic did not comply and became aggressive, and as a result the police attempted to use a taser on Bostic, police wrote in the affidavit.